Sungai Petani, Malaysia

Travelling opens up a whole new world for even the most jaded spirit. A RETIREE, or any senior citizen, should not be discouraged by age to get out of the house and see the country.

SUNGAI PETANI: Firemen had to use a truck to take a man weighing 250kg out of his house in Taman Petani Jaya, here yesterday.

EXPANDING: Hassan speaking at the opening of the PRM Sungai Petani branch. The others are Koh, Sungai Petani branch chairman Lim Pok Long, Teh Soon Ming and Workers' Organisation chairman Thiagaraja PARTI Rakyat Malaysia is on the move.

GEORGE TOWN: Four families are appealing for help to pay for the cost of surgery for their children at the Gleaneagles Medical Centre here.

KAMPAR: Dozens of family members, relatives and friends of the three Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman undergraduates who drowned at the Batu Berangkai waterfalls here yesterday turned up at the mortuary as the bodies were released today.

The bodies of three Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman students, who had drowned at the Batu Berangkai Waterfall, here, were found late Sunday night.

What is it about Halloween that makes us seek things that go bump in the night? People dressed up in the weirdest outfits imaginable, pumpkin heads grinning eerily in the night and children going house to house trick-or-treating for candy.

SUNGAI PETANI, Oct 29 -- Sixteen stall owners lost their belongings when fire razed their stalls at the Taman Ria market here at about 3pm Thursday.

SUNGAI PETANI, Oct 29 -- A technician who put up a fight with five robbers armed with machetes was hacked to death at his bungalow in Jalan Bakar Sampah here last night.

GEORGE TOWN: Three families here are appealing for donations to finance the cost of medical treatment for their children at the Gleaneagles Medical Centre here.

KUALA LUMPUR: A director of a government department and his district chief have been arrested by the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission for allegedly accepting more than RM100,000 involving the awarding of a timber concession contract.

SUNGAI PETANI, Oct 12 -- The body of a newborn baby boy was found wrapped in a package at a mosque in Taman Keladi here this Monday's morning.

The Immigration Department office at the Wisma Persekutuan here will close for three days from Thursday for relocation works to Bandar Muadzam Shah.

The case of a baby sustaining a fractured arm during birth at the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital , Sungai Petani on Sept 14 was not caused by staff negligence but by complications at birth, the hospital's director Dr Harif Fadzilah Che Hashim said on Wednesday.

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from Tanjung Dawai in Sungai Petani, Kedah, admitted that she has been pregnant four times between 2007 and now, Harian Metro reported.

A woman on Monday claimed that her 22 day-old son's left arm was fractured during delivery due to the negligence of staff at the maternity ward of the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Sungai Petani.

OCBC Bank Malaysia Bhd expects the rate of its non-performing loans to stabilise in future, director and chief executive officer Jeffrey Chew said today.

A MAN who was about to surprise his wife on her birthday with her favourite cake and flowers received a rude shock instead.

SUNGAI PETANI: Two soldiers and a Myanmar national were charged at the magistrate's court yesterday with kidnapping a construction worker for a RM24,000 ransom.

SUNGAI PETANI, Sept 22 -- Police have rescued a Myanmar national who was abducted earlier this month after they arrested seven people, two of them women, in a raid on a house in Pekan Sungai Lalang here.